The FBU firefighters’ union today pledged to fight cuts that threaten 10,000 firefighters’ jobs—and will put lives at risk.
Tory attacks on education, and resistance to them, reflect a sharp debate about what education should be for.
The European financial system was on the edge this week with bankers demanding more cuts from economies already ravaged by austerity measures.
Bonds are a way for corporations or governments to raise money. They are the main way states meet the gap between their spending and their income from tax.
The main bondholders in the Irish economy are:
Tory work and pension minister Iain Duncan Smith’s new welfare reform programme represents the most brutal government attack on poor and unemployed people since the creation of a welfare state.
Duncan Smith claims that there are 459,000 jobs available in job centres across Britain. This is not true. Nomis, which supplies official labour market statistics, says that only 383,344 jobs were available at job centres. Only 265,409 of these are full-time.
Those who are deemed fit to work and are currently on Jobseeker’s Allowance will be forced to accept any job going.
London fire bosses have launched a vicious attack on Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members following their recent strikes.
Fire bosses in Essex are trying to buy off workers by offering some of them "no-strike contracts" for extra cash.
Planned Strikes over pensions by members of the NUJ journalists’ union at the BBC were called off after management promised talks last week.
